And when he finally hit the track on September 15 at Belmont, he trailed home

third of six as a 2-5 favourite in a $52,000 six-furlong maiden special weights

for three-year-olds and upwards.

Trainer Todd Pletcher had hoped that a step up in distance to seven furlongs would help the son of Forestry, but again he disappointed in a similar grade under John Velazquez, trailing in fourth of seven to Giant Deputy.

The amount paid for The Green Monkey by the Michael Tabor-Derrick Smith-John

Magnier axis eclipsed the previous record public auction price for a

thoroughbred, when Seattle Dancer fetched 13.1m as a yearling in 1985.